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Word: botherer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walesa was so angry that he scarcely showed up on the convention floor after the vote, preferring to watch the proceedings on a TV monitor in a well-guarded room near by. Nor did he even bother to read the session's final

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Dared to Hope | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...rights it ought to be the beginning of the end of that system everywhere, including, eventually, in the U.S.S.R. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in a speech at the University of Notre Dame last May: "The West won't contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. It won't bother to denounce it; it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism: The Specter and the Struggle | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...come from requires some demographic analysis. For most Americans there is only one identity that competes for primacy with their loyalty to the nation, and that is religious affiliation. Ask the man who passes you in the street to tell you what he is; most likely he won't bother to say either American or Christian, for both are ingrained--the stripes on our zebra. If what must be overcome, then, are the prejudices and loyalties that traditionally go along with "American," perhaps the feelings that accompany "Christian" could be useful...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Beyond El Salvador | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

...Friz Freleng's. David (Nick Mancuso), depressed over a short-circuited affair, falls in with some "Heavenly Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap out of it?) And so it ignores the central dilemma: that kidnaping an adult, however pure the motive or dear the victim, is against the law. Like a strident TV-news expos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

This did not bother me as much as when I walked through the very same gates at 10 p.m. and found the huge gate that is locked during the day time opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reckless Pedestrianism | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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